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-State a moral dilemma you have encountered or heard these days and recall an immediate
response to that. Provide discussions to differentiate responses based on reasons and
those based on feelings:
This is a story I’ve encountered that caught my interests.
THE UNFAITHFUL WIFE (a moral dilemma)

The husband in the story is an emergency worker that has just been called to the scene of an
accident. When he arrived he saw that the car belongs to his wife. Fearing the worst he rush
over, only to see she is trapped in her car with another man. He is obviously her lover, with
whom she’s been having an affair.

He reel back in shock, devastated by what he have just found out. As he step back, the wreck in
front of him comes into focus. He saw his wife is seriously hurt and she needs attention straight
away. Even if she gets immediate attention there’s a very high chance she’ll die. He look at the
seat next to her and see her lover. He’s bleeding heavily from a wound to the neck and he
needs to stem the flow of blood immediately.

Point of Discussion: If he attended to his wife, her lover will bleed to death, and he may not be
able to save her anyway. If he work on the lover, he can save his life, but his wife will definitely
die.

Given this situation where he needs to exercise his mission being an emergency worker,
he should set aside first the very sad truth that his wife is having an affair with other man, since
his mission as an emergency worker is to save life, he will first attend to the one who mostly
needed immediate attention and that is to respond to his wife and give all that he can do to save
her, because whatever it is that put her in the situation she is still his wife and the mother of his
children, we maybe call it crazy but I think it will be the best decision that he could have when
he being placed in this very tragic incident and if ever he could not save her life at least he did
the right thing that I know is pleasing to God and I believed this will also benefit his children who
needed their mother’s care, love and affection in their life.
On the other hand if nobody could attend to his wife’s lover he should also pay attention
to his needs to survive the accident, He should also do his part to save him at once not because
he was able to forgive him at but to give him a fair play and for humanitarian reason he will help
him to the best he can.
If I will be placed in this situation, If ever they will survive the accident I cannot promise I
could forgive them right away, time will heal the pain but will leave the scars behind, though it
will be so hard to forgive them but for the sake of my children, I will not place the put them to jail
to suffer but I will just let them suffer the consequences of what they have done through their
conscience. I know that things happens with purpose sometimes to test us or teach us a lesson,
I believe one should do what is right and that thing is to forgive as God forgives the sinners and
accept things just happen in life because they meant to happen.
We know that having an affair is not acceptable to the society and to the eyes of God as
well so we should not get ourselves engaged into any when time will come that finally we will
settle for marriage because marriage is sacred so we should take it seriously if you decided to
marry someone be sure to give it your all, be sure to be faithful and loyal to her in any place or
time. For what is bind by God should not be broke by man, that God you should always put God
at the center of your relationship because it is only then that you will be sure you will not
commit infidelity on your relationship. Get hold of what you both promise after God and of the
people who loves you and that will guarantee your happiness together forever.

-Explain this “Upsurge of feelings is natural and what we do with them is what makes us
ethical or unethical”. In explaining, provide a timely example.

-What makes us ethical and unethical depends primarily on the norms, beliefs and
traditions of the people in the society where we exists what may be acceptable to others may
not be acceptable to you because one’s judgment in a certain circumstance differ on how you
decode meaning on the things that is happening around you. One best example to this is the
tradition of Muslims of marrying more than one or having two or more wives, while true
Christians should marry only one. For Muslims it is just but normal to have as many wives as
they can but for Christians it’s immoral, one more example is the issue on getting pregnant
without marriage in a Filipino family for some it may be acceptable but for some it is not most
especially in some family who were born to have strong faith in God. To be a single mom
nowadays is acceptable in the society so there are those who don’t really care of what other’s
would say as long as they are doing their best to raise their kids in the best and right way they
know.